[Gasification] MORE DEFORESTATION IN AMAZON

[Benjamin Domingo Bof]

More deforestation in the Amazônia  A law project that moves in the House of representatives retakes the politics ambient of years 60 and extends the area of deforestation in properties in the Amazônia. At this moment where the Brazilian ambient politics is in the center of the attentions, a law project that moves in the House of representatives extends the area of deforestation in properties in the Amazônia. A retrocession for the ambient preservation. A jib of 40 years. The project considers that Brazil retakes the politics ambient of years 60, when the world not yet gave importance for the environment. “Brazil has what none another country has, that it is the wealth of the Tropical Forest. Necessary people to learn if to develop using our forest and not taking off our forest”, affirmed the ambientalista Adriana Ramos. The forest code of 1965 allowed that the land owners in the Legal Amazônia deforested up to 50% of the native vegetation for the culture. In 2001,
 president Fernando Enrique edited a provisional remedy reducing this area for 20% of each farm. The project, in final phase of voting in the House of representatives, comes back to allow that each land owner in the Amazônia deforests half of the forest area that belongs to it. It exempts of punishment who it disregarded the provisional remedy in last the seven years and legalizes old deforestations. Exactly with the restriction  today, 18% of the Amazonian Forest do not exist more. 60 million hectares, the equivalent to all South Region of the country had been deforested, according to Ministry of the Environment. The ruralist group of deputies defends the project as a stimulaton to the food production. “Which is the viability of a citizen who, when buying a property of a thousand hectares, only can use 200? Which is the condition of infrastructure, productivity, economic viability pra that it remains in this place? ”, the member of the house of representatives Ronaldo
 Caiado questions, of the DEM party of Goiás. Amazônia runs risk to disappear and the Brazilian agriculturists can be boycotted in the exterior. “At least, 47 million hectares immediately will be placed below.
Source: Jornal Nacional, Globo News, may 15th 2008.
Translated by Benjamin Bof

       
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